Re: Exchange Server Restore From Backup - Help Needed

Larry,

Exact error details from the App Event Log:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: ESE BACKUP
Event Category: Callback
Event ID: 904
Date: 12/09/2007
Time: 01:58:07
User: N/A
Computer: SERVER01
Description:
Information Store (4044) Callback function call
ErrESECBRestoreGetDestination ended with error 0xC7FE1F41 Database is in
use.
..

For more information, click http://www.microsoft.com/contentredirect.asp.

Arrgghh!
Siv


"Siv" <g@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Larry
Set the database settings for public folders and information store to
allow overwrite,
Kicked off the restore, but it fails saying the database is in use?

Which Exchange Services should be running and which not when you do this.

Siv

"Siv" <g@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Larry,
Thanks for the advice. I have backed up my existing exchange server to a
file in a saved folder and are now restoring the files from the tape to
my machine, I'll post back here what happens!

Thanks for your advice.

Siv

"Larry Struckmeyer" <lstruckmeyer(at)mis-wizards(dot)com> wrote in
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Hi Siv:

Yes, you would want to be careful not to restore the files from the tape
into the same folder that holds your active *.edb and *.stm files.
(note that they could be in different locations)

Could you not put the ide controller in the new system for the client.
Still, if they have started to collect mail you can't overwrite that
store either.

Now, for the recovery, you may have another issue. If you have already
started to collect mail into a new store, you do have a problem with
combining them.

I would first get the *.edb and *.stm files off the tape. Really does
not matter if they come to your system, the customers system, or
somewhere else. You just need the files. Regardless of whether you
restore them to your system or the customers, be very careful that you
do not restore them to the same folder as your *.edb and *.stm files.
(unless you first stop all the exchange services and rename the current
files.)

Once they are off the tape, then you can deal with how to get them
mounted in the new system.

If the new system has already started to collect mail into the new
store, you should post here, or in one of the exchange groups for
assistance with that.

The problem with "mount the databases after the restore" may be that you
are not restoring them to a location that the exchange system manager
knows about.


Larry


"Siv" <g@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Larry,
I must admit I initially thought of fitting a hardware PCI card, but
then after reading the restore to alternate PC thought that would do
the trick. I am scared of restoring to my box in case it
overwrites/stuffs up my Exchange server as I do use that for collecting
my own emails for my business and the rest of the family.

Would the restored files not obliterate my emails?

Thanks for your response.

Siv

"Larry Struckmeyer" <lstruckmeyer(at)mis-wizards(dot)com> wrote in
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Hi Siv:

Not addressing any problems with getting the store to mount here.
Just getting it off the tape.

I tend to throw hardware at a project like this.

http://computers.pricegrabber.com/storage-device-controllers/m/534542/

I would probably not even close the case,

Power off
lay it on its side,
plug in the card
set the tape drive on a secure box, clipboard, etc.
attach all the cables.
attach a floppy if the server does not have one
restart
feed it the driver.

If the info you need is on the tape, you should be good to go.

reverse the above, stand the clients server back up on it's feet. :-)

OTOH, you could restore the information store to your server, copy
them to a USB thumb or external drive, and them move them to the
client server

Larry


"Siv" <g@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,
I posted twice on this subject and both posts never appeared maybe I
inadvertently used a word that blocked the post??

The question:

I have a good backup tape on a Travan tape from a server that was
destroyed. I am now recovering the data from Exchange. My problem is
that the new server is totally SCSI and I cannot fit a Travan tape
drive to it (it has a DAT 72 fitted) so I can't restore the Exchange
Server data directly on the machine. After pouring over a number of
MS Documents I can see there are a number of methods that would allow
me to restore this data if I was restoring the tape on the new
machine.

I discovered from the documentation that I can redirect a restore
from one machine to another. My SBS box is in the Sivill.local domain
and the client's new Server is in a domain called
completeweedcontrol.local (The non-fqdn name is CWCLTD, hereafter
referred to as CWC).

I have fitted a Travan tape drive to my SBS box as it does have an
IDE connector and then changed the IP address of my box so that it is
in the same subnet as the CWC box using the wizard in "Connect to the
Internet". I wondered if that would cause problems as they are both
DHCP servers but I didn't see anything pop up (the logs may tell a
different story when I get to them??) There were no clients in the
network whilst I was attempting this.

I started the NTBackup utility in non-wizard mode and went to the
Restore tab. I located the "First Storage Group" backup item and
clicked "Restore", I was then offered the option to re-direct the
restore to another database server. The computer I was on is called
"SIVILL\SERVER01" and the new one is "CWCLTD\SERVER02". I had tested
they could see each other through Explorer and I had set the
Administrator user names & passwords to the same values on both
machines.

I clicked the "Browse..." button to see if my server could see the
other one, at first they couldn't but after a while of retrying
eventually I could see the two domains and the SERVER02 computer
listed in the CWCLTD domain. When I tried to select it, there was a
small plus symbol as if there might be a sub entry, but it wouldn't
expand out and when I clicked on the server name "SERVER02" the "OK"
button remained greyed out?

In the end I cancelled this dialog and entered "SERVER02" manually. I
set the temp location for log and patch files to "C:\Temp\Exchange".

I ticked the "Last Restore Set" and "Mount Database After Restore"
check boxes and then clicked OK.

The first and immediate dialog came up saying that the log file path
could not be created, yet when I checked on SERVER02 it had in fact
created the folders. When I OK'd that warning another came up saying:

"The specified computer is not a Microsoft Exchange server or its
Microsoft Exchange services are not started."

I checked and all the usual services were up and running on SERVER02?

Can anyone help me with this as it is getting frustrating. I am back
in at the client's tomorrow and really would like to get their email
back as well as their contact information as they have been through a
fairly major disaster recovery and pretty much everything else has
gone well!

Siv













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